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B5 Season 1 is really weak. The story really starts in Season 2 but without having seen Season 1 you won't understand the references in seasons 3 and 4. Avoid Season 5.
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At least a proud legacy - a major player in what may end up being the best Sci-Fi series, ever.
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I'd vote for "The Expanse" myself, but B5 would get my vote for best "pre 2010" series.
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So I went and looked it up: It's on Prime - so I haven't seen any of it. The way amazon has gone in terms of a bit too "free market", I don't know that I'd find it worth it to spend money on membership.
(WHat I do buy from them normally exceeds $25 or so and ships free, anyway. Often coming in just a few days despite their dire predictions). Actually, membership should be free - after all, to benefit from it you buy through and from them, so they profit by it. Maybe it'll be in the library as a DVD ?
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In the UK it's worth it, as it's free next day delivery (so you can order stuff at 10pm and get it by 10am, if you are lucky).
There is a lot of free stuff on Prime Video - but there are so many of 'em these days (Netflix, Discovery+, Prime, CBS, Disney, ...) that you can't get them all!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
There is a lot of free stuff on Prime Video
Mrs. Wife and I were watching Foyle's War on Prime. A "borrowed" account from someone who didn't stream.
Anyway. one day it was free. Then, another day, it was US$7.99/episode (include those we'd earlier watched free). Actually, almost anything any good wasn't part of Prime. Maybe it's changed. Amazon's gotten less greedy over time, right?
For now, we've a year of BritBox to ponder. More than we can watch, in general, anyway. We just went through Wallander.
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We seem to have some similar tastes. I'd highly recommend reading Henning Mankel's Wallander books. A British series that remains one of my all-time favorites was Waking the Dead (a cold case squad; two-part episodes, so about 110 minutes total, giving lots of time to develop plots). Many years ago, I bought a zoneless DVD player so I could order the DVDs from the UK before they were released here.
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Greg Utas wrote: We seem to have some similar tastes.
When I first got BritBox I went to the mysteries section (Mrs & I watch those together) and put a bunch in a watch-list, and that include Waking The Dead. Not yet started.
A particular favorite is the entire atmosphere (and of course the investigations) of their Sherlock Holmes. An interesting thing about shows with detailed atmosphere - they weave a sort of comfort shell about you as your watch. The Poirot, second show, was definitely better. It's sort of a playoff between Agatha Christie's stories and how their presented. If only he'd stop referring to himself in the third person.
I'm catching some of the few Classic Dr Who's I've not yet seen. Good SciFi is the best, but Mrs. is much less interested.
What's that book? "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, and Everyone Loves a Good Murder"
A vintage comedy the Mrs. found (on the Roku Channel) is Green Acres. Years ago I realize that the true theme of the show is the central figure, Oliver Wendell Douglas, is trapped in a very bad trip - the opposite, in a sense, of the show's base premise.
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Oh rats! I liked B5 the Aliens looked like 'Aliens' rather a bloke in a suit. Also it was one of the first to do long arc stories, plus the fighters looked better than most the pilot was length ways which help with high G manoeuvres...
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Does a pop-up restaurant serve anything other than toast?
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Mexican jumping beans?
(on toast)
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I heard they're on the rise. A common order is fresh Whack-a-Mole.
(option 2: Viagra and Tarts . . . all puns intended)
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Maybe they serve happy music?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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As long as it doesn't double the "o"  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... who the heck thought this was a good idea?
Live updates as Wrexham vaccine plant evacuated after receiving 'suspicious package' - Wales Online[^]
OK, so you don't want to have the vaccine. I get that - you read too much Twatter and Farcebook and believe everything you are told without any critical thought about what they say. That is your right.
But trying to prevent others getting it ... that's close to attempted murder.
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OriginalGriff wrote: that's close to attempted murder.
Same as not wearing a mask.
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20212 wrote: Same as not wearing a mask.
I would not go that far.
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Sorry to inform you, but until this panicademic, it was well documented by the CDC, the WHO, and other heath organizations that mask wearing doesn't protect you from viral infections and several studies, including a recent one by Danish heath researchers, have shown no statistical difference in infection rate of people who do and don't wear masks.
Instead, masks are actually face diapers that prevent the uncouth from sneezing, coughing, or otherwise spitting on others. In this regard they do work.
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obermd wrote: or otherwise spitting on others. In this regard they do work
Which was exactly his point if you reread his post : By not wearing a mask, you have higher stakes of infecting others, which they may die of.
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I'll tell my dentist and staff they're idiots for wearing masks and goggles because you say so.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
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Hey, if they told the world to wear pots and pans on their heads in order to stay alive, they would, and then they would call the others who don't comply, idiots and murderers.
I can't go much more with this topic without flaming someone, and that is what got me banned before.
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What you say may be so - take the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers, for example - with the tin-foil wrapped around there heads.
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Idjit, the tin foil is the prevent alien mind control (or possibly the new fangled mobile network) not some pathetic little virus.
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